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"Ex-FEMA Director Brown Blames Others"

The AP's notoriously biased Lara Jakes Jordan strikes again, both with that headline and an over-the-top hit piece on kick-him-when-he's-down Mike Brown:

WASHINGTON - Former FEMA director Michael Brown blamed others for most government failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday, especially Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. He aggressively defended his own role.

It's funny how we never saw an AP headline reading "New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Made Up Death Toll Out Of Thin Air" or "Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco Couldn't Make a Decision if Her Life and the Lives of Louisianans Depended On It." Or "The AP Fails to Report Katrina Aftermath With Anything Approaching Fairness or Objectivity."

Read the rest. It's typical AP bias and typical political braying from both sides of the aisle. Our media and political elites are snivelling jackasses.

My hope that we'll learn the right lessons from Katrina: On life support. And fading fast.

MORE: Hm. Here's an earlier version of the Lara Jakes Jordan story, or an earlier story about the same hearings. It ends...oddly:

Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., cautioned against too narrowly assigning blame.

"At the end of the day, I suspect that we'll find that government at all levels failed the people of Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama and the Gulf Coast," said Davis.

Davis pushed Brown on what he and the agency he led should have done to evacuate New Orleans, restore order in the city and improve communication among law enforcement agencies.

Brown said: "Those are not FEMA roles. FEMA doesn't evacuate communities. FEMA does not do law enforcement. FEMA does not do communications."

In part of his testimony, Brown pumped his hand up and down for emphasis.

That odd visual detail just seems entirely out of place. Jordan seems to be trying to create one of two mental images: That of Brown as an angry or irritated child, or that of Brown making an inappropriate gesture. Either way or neither way, it's an odd and jarring way to end the story.

(thanks to Chris)

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Posted by B. Preston on September 27, 2005 3:17 PM
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I guess we won’t see this AP headline either, “Money grubbing Louisiana Senator Landreau introduces bill to get half million bucks per resident confiscated from American taxpayers under the guise of a recovery act”

Posted by Jimbo on September 27, 2005 3:56 PM

Let’s see… FEMA mounts the then-fastest response ever to a hurricane, and that for a hurricane devastating an unprecedentedly large area. Mississippi and Alabama received Federal assistance in a very timely fashion (given the scale of the disaster). Brown should be proud to take the blame for that (as well as last year’s response to the four major hurricane strikes).

Oh, and btw, since a Federal agency, even with the President pushing hard, won’t really change in a month’s time, I’m guessing that Brown should take partial blame for that too.

- Eric.

Posted by Eric S. on September 27, 2005 4:39 PM

Oh, and another thing… What’s with all these so-called Republicans on that committee today attacking Brown for the “poor Federal response”?? I fully expect politically motivated and engineered lies to be propagated by Demoncrats, but by alleged Republicans? It’s a total disgrace! Especially on a day when even the MSM were discussing how exaggerated the alleged problems were.

- Eric.

Posted by Eric S. on September 27, 2005 7:15 PM

People are upset that he is working out the month before his resignation takes effect as a “consultant” - not me. It may not be all that useful in this particular case, but in normal circumstances I wonder why it is not done more often. The new person coming in can get info on current status of work, find out who will work unsupervised and who needs an occasional kick-start, which outside contacts must be updated because they will not ask vs those who will call in on their own… Lots of stuff that can save literally months of learning.

. Two biggies show he does not belong in management: 1. at least try to ensure that those under you are passing up information: Brown was often clueless because his people were not telling him what was going on - this would not pass muster at a McD franchise. 2. when someone was assigned something to do in a meeting, he assumed they would do it. Nope. Take notes and names, check back.

Posted by John Anderson on September 27, 2005 7:44 PM

John, not a bad comment but you’ve spammed it on several blogs.

Why does no one want to talk about the FEMA response to the hurricanes in Florida last year? They were touted as being great. Gee, who was the head of FEMA last year? Brown. So, the senario is that he did well with three massive hurricanes to hit Florida but lousey when it hit Louisiana? Ever wonder if it was because the governor of Florida was doing his job and the governor of Louisiana was out of her league?

Posted by retire05 on September 28, 2005 12:19 AM
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